Hello all! I know it had been a while, but hey at least it wasn't a whole year again like last time (embarrassed blush), a nice long chapter as well! Hope you all enjoy!

(unbeated)

Chapter 8: Target

Naruto felt uncomfortable being around so many glamorous women. He tried to find Sasuke and spotted his lover being taken away by his father up a long winding staircase. So there was no helping that. He couldn't find Deidara anywhere either so he knew he wouldn't be saved any time soon.

"My husband is always so busy these days, he's reaching retirement soon, but I know don't think he will," one of women said, her black hair was pulled into a tight bun, so much so that it pulled her skin up. She wore a thick gaudy diamond collar, a strappy silver dress that hung off her thin frame, and much too much make-up.

"I know, they get so wrapped up in their work..." another added.

"And their mistresses~" another added with a sing song voice.

The blonde nearly spat out his champagne, what the hell were they talking about? So far the conversation had been pretty dull, and normal. So how had it come to this? The rest of the group laughed like the topic of a 'mistress' was nothing, as if it was no more of a problem than wearing two different socks.

"Ah yes, how old is your newest one Sayase?" a woman with platinum blonde hair asked. She work a light green gown with sequence going down the side, and long teardrop earings.

"22, poor girl, Sato isn't the most suave man, he's quite a brute really; but money does speak," she replied primly inspecting her manicured nails.

"I heard Aiko's husband found himself a young boy to be his companion this time. A pretty little thing to..."

"You saw him?"

"Oh yes, the most beautiful skin; he looks like a girl if I think about it."

"Chie's husband found himself an American girl, some sort of foreign exchange student."

Naruto felt disoriented at all this talk, how could these women be so casual about all this? He was thinking about trying to escape, but couldn't when he felt a arm on his hand sopping him. The blonde looked up and saw Mikoto looking at him with a smile, although it didn't look very kind. She took a sip of her champagne, and gave a dainty cough to get the ladies attention.

"Of course our husband's may have their little indiscretions but they will always come back home to us. After all we are their legal wives... we are equal to them," all the women agreed quickly.

Naruto looked at his champagne as she spoke, he didn't like what she was saying; but he didn't think he could say anything.

She was right, Sasuke was his lover, and at times he did feel like he was a kept mistress. It was only recently that he started making changes to his own life and not relying on Sasuke as much. Even though it had been a rocky start, they well worked together. They couldn't marry though, in Japan his and Sasuke relationship had no legal standing, and what if Sasuke wanted children? They had never talked about it, after all they had only been together for over a year, it was too soon to even think about that. Naruto liked children, maybe they could adopt, or maybe even get a surrogate if they really wanted to.

Huh...

In all his musing he realised that not even once did he think that Sasuke would leave him, to marry some girl. Sasuke had been a player before they had met, but he also knew that the man was loyal and wouldn't toss him aside for the prospect of marriage. He just wasn't the type.

After all you don't try travel half-way across the world chasing some mad man yakuza, just to rescue your mistress.

Naruto looked up to meet Mikoto's gaze, she had an unreadable look on her face. Then she smirked. It was in that moment Naruto realised something. She putting on this 'nice' act, looking all supportive and kind, just to lure him away from Sasuke and bring him to these horrible women on a silver platter. She thought he could intimidated by all their vile talk. As if he would just stand there and be insulted by the horrible insinuations.

He smiled back at her, which going by her now shocked expression she wasn't expecting. Naruto took a languid sip of his glass, and gave happy sigh, and gaining all of the women's attention.

"I just think how horrible it must be for your husband's though..." he trailed off considering his glass.

"Horrible, why?" one of the women asked.

"Well I just think how horrible all you have to be for your husband's to choose work and someone else over your lovely companionship," he said with cheeky smile.

The women all gasped in shock and Mikoto was furious but said nothing, only watching the blonde give a wide grin, put his glass on a passing waiters tray and went looking for Sasuke. He soon spotted the raven coming down a set of stairs. His face set like thunder, causing all the guest to part away from as if they got burned under his glare. Naruto however didn't fear that look, he strode confidently to older man and stopped in front of him.

"Hey is everything okay?" he asked softly.

Sasuke's icy glare softened at the sight of his worried lover, quickly he enveloped Naruto into a hug and kissed him deeply.

"Let's go home, dobe. I think we been around here long enough," he said, and with a hand over the blonde's shoulder he led him out of his family house to their limousine. Kakashi was already waiting for them and Sasuke tried to act calm as they stepped inside the car. He had never been so angry at his father before, they fought; but that man had taken it too far this evening.

Even thinking about what happened in that office, just infuriated him.

-Earlier-

Sasuke studied the three strangers inside the spacious office, Fugaku led him to the to the plump dark leather couch and sat down beside him. The strangers were in front of him, the only thing dividing them was heavy polished black marble coffee table. While his talked pleasantries, he had time to study the strangers.

The first was an older man, with black hair that was just starting to grey slicked back and parted on his right. He was just starting to form crowns feet around his dark brown eyes, and sported a cleft chin. His skin was lightly tanned, and there was a hint of a razor burn on his square jaw. He wore an expensive Armani suit and black oxfords. Next to him was a woman, she was petite, with auburn hair that came cascading down the side of her pale heart shaped face with a small doll like nose, and cupid bow lips. She wore a short red dress, and matching stiletto heels.

Lastly was an excited middle aged man with thick glasses, and short black hair. He was pale, and really thin, with sharp cheek bones and crooked nose. He wore an ill fitting suit, the shoulders to wide and bottoms tight. The slacks seemed baggy as well, the bottoms too long for his frame. The man was weasely, and the way he clutched that briefcase against his chest only made Sasuke confirm that belief.

"What is this about?" Sasuke asked his father.

His father just leaned over and started pouring some tea out in the waiting china cups. "I just I would introduce you to Suki, she is the daughter of Shigurie-san head of the Iburi-clan," he said motioning to the young woman. "They are here for some business."

"Hn...," he hummed, throwing a glance at the girl, who just blushed demurely before looking away shyly. "And who are the others?" he asked since neither looked like they were related to her.

Fugaku chuckled, the other two men looked only slightly perturbed at not being properly acknowledged by his son. "This is Suki-san's guardian Koboyashi-san..." he said referring to the older man. "...and this is Ito-san," he said, not elaborating further who that other man was, and what exactly their business was.

His father continued to talk pleasantries and with the other two men, while the girl kept quiet. She would occasionally stare at him and blush and for a second and then looked away. Sasuke frowned and looked at the table in confusion, what the hell was going on here? What type of business was going on here?

This looked more like an omiai.

Oh, so that's how his father wanted to play it. Trying to set him up with a woman, when he didn't want to. That bastard knew how to push it.

Sasuke put on his most flirtiest grin, and leaned forward to catch her attention. "So what do know about me Suki-chan?"

"Eh," she was surprised by the sudden forwardness and giggled. "Your father told me that you're were a successful and handsome man Sasuke-kun."

Sasuke chuckled, "Oh did he?" he said looking towards his smiling father. Did the man actually think he was going through with this farce willingly?

"Did he also tell you that I am gay, and currently in a relationship?"

The china cup in her hand clattered onto the table, and the two men beside her gasped. Sasuke stood up casually not at all caring about the debacle he had just created. This was his father's problem not his. He almost reached the door, only to be pulled back by his arm.

"What the hell do you think you are doing here Sasuke?" Fugaku hissed out in anger. Sasuke growled out in anger, and shook the older man off him.

"What am 'I' doing?! What the hell are you doing, luring me up here for an Omiai, when you know that I am with Naruto."

His father gave a snarky snort. "Oh please if you want to keep your little play thing it doesn't matter to me, " he said waving his hand dismissively. "What you need to do however is marry a respectable girl and start making plans about your future."

Sasuke snarled and went toe-to-toe against his father. All this ordering around and subtle manipulation, reminded him of why he separated himself from his father's company and established his own empire. He had made name for himself, not as Uchiha Fugaku's second son, but as himself. "I agreed to damn merger with Itachi but not to this, I'm not one of your little assets anymore."

He took another step forward forcing the older Uchiha to stagger back. Fugaku didn't expect this reaction, and it shocked him the anger that came of his youngest. He had never seen Sasuke like this before. His youngest was always head strong, but this man in front of him was not like the boy he once knew. This man was like an angry wolf ready to fight and kill, and the older Uchiha knew that Sasuke would kill him if he pushed.

"Don't overstep your bounds again Fugaku," he said and walked out, slamming the door behind him.

-Now-

Sasuke sighed and leaned back into the soft upholstery, his nose pressed into Naruto's hair, inhaling his calming scent. He had never been this angry before, generally he was a calm person, the only time he got like this was when it was about his little blonde lover. Any slight against Naruto he took personally, and even though his parents knew he was with someone they still tried to set him up with some bimbo.

He looked down at his silent lover and saw that he was still holding on to gift he made. Sasuke arched a curious eyebrow, and reached down plucking the box out of the blonde's grip.

"Why do you still have this?" he asked.

"Oh," he squeaked, and looked away flustered. "Turns out your mother doesn't like sweets very much," he replied, not looking at Sasuke.

Now that was a lie, his mother loved sweet things, something else had happened. However he knew that the blonde wouldn't tell him unless forced. Sasuke looked down at the box and started removing the packaging and opened the box, revealing homemade Madeleine's. He picked one up, and took a bite out of it. Sasuke gave a thoughtful hum, all the while being scrutinised by Naruto, he hummed again and took another bite.

"What are you doing teme?"

"I can understand why mother wouldn't like this, much too sweet."

Naruto gritted his teeth together, and punched the ravens shoulder. "Teme!" he shouted indignantly, but then burst out into giggles because when he saw that Sasuke was still eating the treats. He knew that Sasuke didn't enjoy sweet things either, but was still eating the cookies without fuss.

The blonde let out a sigh and stared down at his hand with a small smile. "Hey can I ask you something?"

"Hn."

Naruto snorted, but took that as 'yes'. "Did you father ever have a mistress?"

The cookie stopped short of Sasuke's mouth, he looked at Naruto in confusion. "What brought that on?"

"Well... I was with your mother and some of the women were just talking about their husbands, and it sounded like nearly all of them had mistresses. They were just so casual about the whole situation like it was normal, no one found the situation... odd?" finished.

Sasuke paused, 'Oooh' he thought. He knew what had happened, his mother.

His father may be strategist, and the face of the Uchiha clan; but his mother was the true manipulator. She just knew how to read people and find out their weakness, she probably thought about intimidating the blonde, but from looking at him, he knew it hadn't worked. Naruto couldn't be predicted, that was what drew Sasuke to the blonde fire cracker in the first place. From the first time he had seen him ,and got wine spilled all over him. He was in love before he had even known it.

Sasuke couldn't help but chuckle. "If father ever had a mistress mother would have castrated him, she is a yakuza woman of course."

Now it was the blonde's turn to be confused. "But then what about all those other women?"

"They're politicians trophy wives, as long as they get a few presents they don't care what their husbands do." He then turned to Naruto. "Why are you asking about this kind of stuff anyway? Do you expect me to get some sort of mistress, while you play a pampered housewife?"

Naruto huffed in irritation and looked away in embarrassment. "I think the women were implying that I 'play' mistress..."

Sasuke couldn't help but smirk, he put the box of Madeleine's safely into a side compartment, and leaned over to the huffing blonde man, hooking a finger under his chin so that he could look at his lovers face. He was always surprised by how blue Naruto's eyes were. During their short separation he had tried to imagine Naruto's face and his own imagination couldn't do the blonde's cerulean orbs justice. Slowly he leaned down and planted a kiss on Naruto's lips, which soon turned deep and sensual. He ran his hand down the lean body, feeling the warmth of the skin through the thin shirt.

"Teme...," Naruto whispered out breathlessly when they parted. "What was that for?"

"To make you understand that you are also a yakuza wife, or did you forget that?" he said with a smirk. "I promised your Uncle that I would take responsibility."

The light blush that adorned his cheeks, grew and suddenly his whole face red with embarrassment. "Sh-shut u-up Teme!" he stammered out, but it didn't have any bite. It just made him look too cute... cute enough to eat, he thought with a grin.

Sasuke leaned down again to claim another kiss, only to be disturbed by a knock on the partition. He sat up knowing that Kakashi wouldn't disturb him unless something was wrong, so he pressed the button that would lower the partition. Naruto straightened up beside him, his cheeks still red from embarrassment.

"What is it Kakashi?!" he asked.

"Sir sorry to disturb you, but there is car following us, has been for the last 15 minutes."

Sasuke frowned and looked out of the window. He spotted the car instantly, it was very close on their tail. It could be nothing, but just in case he decided to call for back-up. He reached inside his jacket and took out his phone, sending a quick S.O.S to Zabuza, and Juugo's team; put the gps on so that they could be tracked. He tucked his phone back in and then reached under the seat and took out a bullet-proof vest and handed it to Naruto.

"Sasuke what-"

"Wear it right now, this could get dangerous. Kakashi, nearest safe house," he ordered. Then reached under the seat again to retrieve a large black box. He took off his jacket and threw it onto the floor, and opened the box. Inside was his gun, holster, and some magazines. He put on the holster, and started loading the first magazine into his gun. Then taking a couple more of them out of the box and put them in his pocket in case he needed it.

"Wait a sec," Naruto shouted grabbing onto Sasuke sleeve. "Where is your vest?!"

Sasuke hissed and cursed under his breath, he had hoped that Naruto wouldn't notice. There was only one vest in the car, they hadn't had a chance to add another. Then again he hadn't expected to be attacked so publically. It wasn't as if they were on some abandoned back road, this was a busy highway leading back into the city, and the limo was bulletproof. Yet that would only last for so long. A limo wasn't exactly one of the most gainly of vehicles, a good bash to the side could cause the whole limousine to lose control and crash; but Kakashi was a good driver. They may be able to make it to a safe house.

"Sasuke!" Naruto shouted again, pulling on the other man's sleeve to get his attention. "Where is your fucking vest?!"

"Dobe. Sit. Down-" suddenly there was a loud crashing noise, and the car lurched to the side, propelling him and Naruto out of their seat. They were ramming his car!

Quickly Sasuke sat up, pulling Naruto with him and pushing him back into his seat. "Put your seat belt on, and keep low," Sasuke then crouched towards the window to a better look at what was going on. There was a car right on their tail, he knew that Kakashi was going over 70, moving quickly passed other car's to try and shake their attacker off. The nearest safe house was in an industrial region which would be relatively empty, so that they wouldn't endanger any of civilians, and not bring too much attention on themselves by the police.

"Kakashi, what's our ETA?" he shouted at the older man.

"10 minutes sir!" Kakashi replied, and then he took a dangerous right turn without indicating, cutting off several cars as he went down an intersection towards the industrial region. Traffic thinned out but the car was still following them, Sasuke pressed a button on his dashboard and lowered the window.

He took out his gun and started aiming at the car's tires, but missed several times, they were moving too much, swerving side-to-side that he couldn't get a good aim. He sat back down and pressed the button the raise the window again. He looked towards Naruto, the blonde was cared pressed himself tightly against the leather upholstery, his blue eyes closed, skin pale with fear. Sasuke cursed under his breath, Naruto should not be here under this kind of situation, he had tried so hard to keep him away from this part of his life.

Slowly he reached towards him and took Naruto hand into his own. Giving it a slight squeeze in reassurance. Blue eyes opened and looked at him, and gave a shaky smile, returning the squeeze. Again there was a loud cashing sound, and their car lurched forwards as the car behind them bashed into them again. Sasuke steadied himself inside the car and looked behind him to see the car falling a just a bit further behind as Kakashi pushed down on the pedal. They soon reached the warehouse district, Kakashi drove between the large building, going down a narrow road too small for their attackers wider car to follow, and drove inside a large building. It was the loading bay, and large enough to fit in several trucks. Brining the car to a sharp stop near the back.

"Come on we've got to go!" Sasuke shouted, undoing Naruto's seat belt.

He pulled the blonde along, taking him to a side door, kicking it open and pushing Naruto in front of him. The building was a decommissioned meat packing warehouse, that was now mostly used for storing factory equipment. There were a large amount of shelving, each reaching nearly up to the ceiling, filled with boxes; but it had plenty of corners to hide in. There was still a smell of old meat in the air, that could not be remove. Large windows at the top of wall, let a small amount light come in, just enough that they weren't walking blind. He dragged Naruto with him keeping the blonde close behind him, and Kakashi brought up the rare.

They were almost halfway through the warehouse, when Sasuke heard the screeching sound of a car barrelling into the loading bay. They heard shouting behind them, and it sounded like there were multiple people, all roaring and laughing like all of this was a joke. He couldn't help but grit at the gall those bastards had attacking him, and putting Naruto in danger.

He would kill them all.

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